271 B.C. Olympiad 127.2Click on the links in the lists of references to go to the sources for each event
| 1 | PEL << Atrocities committed by Aristotimus, tyrant of Elis.
@ Plut:Mor_250'F-251'F. |
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| 2 | << Aristotimus is assassinated, and his daughters are forced to commit suicide.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Plut:Mor_252'A-253'E;* Paus_5.5'1, 6.14'11; ~Just_26.1'8-10; {CAH_7.1'500.} |
| 3 | EGY << Document: Theoc_15 & 17, two poems by Theocritus written in praise of Ptolemaeus.
@ Schol:Theoc_15; {CAH_7.1'499<275?>; Holbl_p142.} |
| 4 | MAC << The floruit of the poet Aratus.
@ +Hieron:Chron_1745. |
| 5 | GRE << Epichares is elected to be hipparch at Athens.
@ Austin_50'2-5. |
| 6 | SYR ?? Antiochus recovers Damascus from the garrison of Ptolemaeus.
@ Polyaen_4.15'1; {Probably during the First Syrian War, but the exact date is unknown.} |
| 7 | PEL == The birth of Aratus of Sicyon.
* Read Polybius' account @ Polyb_2.43'3;* Plut:Arat_2'2; {CAH_7.1'243; OCD_a.} |
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